Morning mail: aged care vaccine limbo, US pauses Johnson & Johnson jab, Matildas lose again

Wednesday: Australia's largest aged care provider still waiting for a Covid vaccination plan for its workforce. Plus: CSIRO's junk food analyser delivers confronting results

Good morning. It's not good news on the vaccine rollout front as frustration grows for aged care workers waiting to get their jab in Australia. And the US, which had been vaccinating people at rapid rates, has hit a hurdle with some blood clot concerns around the Johnson & Johnson shot.

Australia's largest aged care provider, Bupa, has been left in limbo about its employees' Covid vaccines six weeks into the rollout. It says it has yet to receive any plan from the government on when its workforce will be immunised, despite aged care staff initially supposed to be vaccinated as part of the highest priority cohort. Council on the Ageing chief executive, Ian Yates, sounded the alarm weeks ago. Vaccination of the staff is really important to the Covid security of residents, and we are concerned that the vaccination of staff doesn't seem to have a clear strategy at this point," he said. Australia recorded its first Covid-related death since October after an 80-year-old man died in a Queensland hospital yesterday after returning from overseas.